Improvement in manufacture of boots



W; R. MILLER... Manufacture of'Bo0ts.

Patented June 25. I878.

Java; 7

aowm MPEIERS, P lOTO-UYMOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. MILLER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT lN MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,200, dated June 25,1878; application filed June 3, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. R. MILLER, of Baltimore, in the county ofBaltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Manufacture of Boots 5 and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture ofboots; and the invention consists in a side seam formed and protected aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and arrangement, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure1 is a side elevation of a boot having the back and front securedtogether by the seam hereinafter described. Fig. 2 is a View showing oneside of the protector secured in forming the side seam. Fig. 3 is asectional 'view, showing the back and front stretcher or extender afterbeing secured together, with the stayst-rip partially secured. Fig. 4 isa view showing the other side of the protector or staystrip, secured bya row of stitches, and Fig. 5 is an inside view of the side seam andprotector or stay-strip, all united in accordance with my invention.

In the drawings, A denotes the front, and B the back. In forming theside seam the parts A and B are placed back to back, and a welt, O,interposed between the two edges. Astrip of leather, D, is then arrangedwith one edge, E, under the aforesaid parts, and is then secured by arow of stitches, F, passing through the parts A and B and the welt (J,as shown in Fig. 2 of drawing. The front and back are then extended, asshown in Fig. 3 of drawing, and the edge G of the stay-strip D issecured by a row of stitches, H, on one side of the eyeseam, passingthrough the back B, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of drawing.

A side seam having the rib on the inside of the leg, covered by a stripof leather secured by two rows of stitches, one on each side of theeye-seam, is old, and I would not, therefore, be understood as claimingany such construction as my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The seam of a boot protected by a stay-strip, one side of which issecured in the seam which unites the parts of the upper together, theother side being folded over the seam and stitched to one of said parts,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses. 1

WVM. R. MILLER.

Witnesses:

H. B. BROWN, ALBIN M. LONG.

